Adelaide Oval RoofClimb: How does it work?
It is possible to climb the Adelaide Oval, following the stadium’s 2014 revamp. Book the unusual Adelaide Oval walking tour with the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb.
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The much-loved Adelaide Oval cricket ground was mostly replaced in a major redevelopment that finished in 2014. Before then, it was seen as one of the prettiest cricket grounds in the world, but it wasn’t exactly a money-spinner like Melbourne‘s MCG. Adelaide needed extra capacity.
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The Adelaide Oval’s revamp turned it, indisputably, into a large modern stadium. However, certain heritage features had to stay. These included the Moreton Bay fig trees, grass bank and wooden, manually-operated scoreboard.
Capacity of Adelaide Oval
These historic elements meld into a stadium design that has won over stalwart old timers surprisingly quickly. The new 53,500 capacity stadium has been met with grudging respect. It is now home to the Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Australian Rules football teams, and hosts international cricket matches. Many of the latter are day-night affairs, held under floodlights.
Adelaide Oval walking tours have long been available at the stadium, and you can stay at the Adelaide Oval Hotel. But the most exciting new addition to the Adelaide Oval tour roster, however, is the Roofclimb. For the uninitiated, this adventurous walking tour allow you to climb the Adelaide Oval. It is a little like Sydney’s Bridgeclimb. Participants start by kitting themselves out in jump suits. They’re then harnessed up, and attached to wires that run all over the Oval’s scallop-shaped roofs.
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- Barossa Valley tours: 1. Wine-tasting with lunch 🍷. 2. Food and wine tour. 3. Small group wine tour with exclusive VIP tastings.
- Kangaroo Island in a day – including sea lions 🦭, koalas 🐨and national parks.
- Adelaide Hills tours: 1. Sights plus Murray River lunch cruise combo. 2. Small group cheese, chocolate & wine tour with Hahndorf German village.
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- Victor Harbor and southern highlights tour – including the Granite Island horse-drawn tram.
How does the Adelaide Oval RoofClimb work?
Like the Bridgeclimb, the Roofclimb is not as scary as many might imagine. There’s very little climbing involved, and the Adelaide Oval RoofClimb is more like a walk over the rooftops. Be warned – there are a couple of moments where looking down between your feet might induce a gulp. But for all but the biggest acrophobes, the Roofclimb is fun, rather than terrifying.
From up top, Adelaide Oval RoofClimb participants get to see the drop-in pitches grown to the side and the giant mowers cutting the grass. Best of all, there’s a prime bird’s eye view of the pitch.
A few secret seats hide on the roof of the Riverside Stand. Climb the Adelaide Oval on match day, and you get to watch 10 overs of cricket or a quarter of Australian Rules Football up there. That’s from an even better position than the TV cameramen have.
The Roofclimb Adelaide Oval tour lasts two hours and costs from $109. It’s a good bet for buying as an Adelaide gift experience.
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- DOLPHINS 🐬: Swim with wild dolphins, kayak with the resident bottlenose pod or watch them on a dolphin cruise.
- FOOD AND WINE 🍷: Indulge on Adelaide food tour including Adelaide Central Market. Or try a wine discovery tour with tastings at the National Wine Centre. Or the ultimate Penfolds Magill Estate experience with full estate tour & Grange tasting.
- WILDLIFE 🐨: Spot koalas on a guided Morialta nature hike. Or walk from Waterfall Gully to Mount Lofty with entrance to Cleland Wildlife Park.
- CRUISES ⛵: Watch the sun set on a twilight coastal cruise, get to know the city on a Torrens River cruise or take a high tea cruise aboard the Popeye.
- SPORT 🏏: Dare to take on the Adelaide Oval Roofclimb or enter the fabled scoreboard on the behind-the-scenes stadium tour.
- ACTION 🚵♂️: Descend Mount Lofty on a downhill mountain bike tour or kayak along the Torrens River.
More things to do in Adelaide
Done the Adelaide Oval walk? Then other activities to try out at the end of a Melbourne to Adelaide road trip include TreeClimb Adelaide, mountain biking tours from Mt Lofty Summit, swimming with dolphins from Glenelg and bushwalking to Morialta Falls in the Morialta Conservation Park. There are also several excellent heritage buildings and museums in Adelaide CBD, where Peel Street is Adelaide’s best laneway.
Then try Mt Kosciuszko – Australia’s highest mountain. Alternatively, take on the Pylon Lookout in Sydney or rock climbing Kangaroo Point in Brisbane. You can’t, however, climb Uluru.